On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 18:16, Max TenEyck Woodbury max@mtew.isa-geek.net wrote:
There should be links to the Microsoft documentation in each article, but Microsoft has been known to move their documentation around without maintaining redirects. To avoid being at Microsoft's mercy in this, a summary (*not* a duplicate) of the Microsoft articles, which would be fair use, should be maintained.
There seem to be several interfaces to retreive MSDN articles... Some of those interface might be more stable / provide a way to retrieve a current link? (Framing the content would probably not be allowed, but retreiving links should be...)
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/innovation/archive/2009/04/22/launching-low-bandwidt...
Some more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/innovation/archive/2009/10/26/launching-lightweight-...
Web service interface: http://services.msdn.microsoft.com/ContentServices/ContentService.asmx (possibly the most useful for building current links?) (It might also work to try and retreive as much information about MSDN links when they are posted, in order to allow the links to be updated when the site stucture change?) (Doing a web service query everytime to retreive a link would probably be slow and inefficient...)
Gert